Philosophy & Theory of Education

This volume investigates the ubiquitous education of everyday life as people contest the normal, settle on a new convention, and deal with the diff...

In this book, DeLeon presents a critique of neoliberalism and present times through a metaphor of social collapse and considers what remains once t...

In the American university system for most of this century, the academic reward system has been blamed for both the neglect of teaching and a glut ...

As social contexts and demands change in the 21st century, pedagogies and policies must adapt to keep up. Increasing emphasis on global preparednes...

Drawing on wide ranging research this book, originally published in 1997, explores how the policy changes of previous years were affecting primary ...

There is no shortage of innovative educational programs the challenge is learning how to scale and sustain those with strong evidence of effective...

Originally published in 1967, this book was intended to be of value to students of Education in two ways. Firstly, all such students were expected ...

Distance education, for long the Cinderella of the educational spectrum, had emerged in the 1970s and early 1980s as a valued component of many nat...

This book explores the increasing emergence within educational institutions, such as schools and universities, of large, flexible spaces whose desi...

Discourses of Denial explores the myriad ways that the labor of those employed by universities is situated as somehow distinct from ordinary labor....

Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorica...

Special Education and Globalization illustrates the way in which inclusive education has become the dominant discourse across Europe and the wider ...

Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become imp...

Britain has a rich heritage of school buildings dating from the later Middle Ages to the present day. While some of these schools have attracted th...

Like few other decisions in life, educational choices must be made by virtually every-one growing up in industrial societies. The consequences of t...

Further Language Learning in Linguistic and Cultural Diverse Contexts deals with the interdisciplinary area of multilingual and intercultural educa...

First published in 1994, this book describes how cooperative group work can enhance relationships in the classroom, reduce prejudice and alleviate ...

Debates around quality versus quantity in education can generate controversy about how quality is measured. Many question the drive to delineate an...

Challenging misconceptions related to Black academic achievement, this volume provides original perspectives on the policies, initiatives, and fact...

The close-knit, personal nature of small rural communities results in school and community operating as a single integrated social structure. Usefu...

Although Chinese societies have generally become striking as the classic over-achievers in international measures of academic performance, there ha...

This book presents a carefully constructed framework for teaching and learning informed by philosophical and empirical foundations of phenomenology...

At a time of increasingly diverse and dynamic debates on the intersections of contemporary LGBTQ rights, trans* visibility, same-sex families, and ...

The American scholar and activist Nancy Fraser has written about a wide range of issues in social and political theory, and is well-known for her p...